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This year, iMAL enters an important transition period! 30 Quai des Charbonnages will undergo major renovation works, with the opening in 2019 of a new and spacious centre for digital arts and cultures. This evolution will of course be accompanied by a major reflection on our programme, objectives, visual identity, website, and more… in accordance to our new spaces!

To allow us to focus on this challenging but exciting future, we are planning a lighter programme in 2018, including off-site activities such as the #LAYERS exhibition in April and May, at La Raffinerie.

The renovation work is made possible through the CASTII.be project supported by the Brussels Region and the European Regional Development Fund 2014-2020.

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Reclaim the web!

Discover and experience the P2P web

01.12.18

⤑ 01.12.18

During Reclaim the web!, you will discover the peer-to-peer web, an alternative to our current system, where anyone can share data, publish websites and apps from their own computer, without relying on any centralised server or service.

The afternoon will start the day with a series of presentations by developers and artists who are already working, today, with these new technologies. To explore the subject deeper, we will continue with hands-on workshops and participatory sessions.

Everyone is welcome to Reclaim the web!, without prior experience or knowledge required.

Programme

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Video Game for Art

An introduction to the Godot engine

27.10.18

⤑ 28.10.18

Godot is a libre videogame engine, a complete tool for creating videogames and interactive experiences.

During this two-days workshop, you will discover the potential of Godot! Through a series of small demos, you will get familiar with the various aspects of real-time 3D projects: importing objects; creating materials; managing lighting and cameras; and introducing interactivity with scripting!

This workshop will focus on using these tools in an artistic context, in particular through the OSC protocol. OSC will allow Godot to communicate with other softwares more commonly used in the field of digital art, like SuperCollider, Puredata, IanniX, and more!

Multiuser 3d environments as sonic instruments

A masterclass with Marko Ciciliani

28.08.18

⤑ 29.08.18

The goal of this two-days workshop is to collaboratively design a 3d environment built in Unity and to perform with it. The environment will offer a multitude of affordances for sonic and musical interactions.

Participants will be able to enter the environment simultaneously, as in multiuser games. Here, the simultaneous presence of multiple users in the same environment will yield additional musical possibilities.

Processing, Blender, Digital fabrication, Arduino, Raspberry Pi

10.07.18

⤑ 10.08.18

#LAYERS

Contemporary Art in the Digital Era

18.04.18

⤑ 26.05.18

The #LAYERS exhibition presents 15 contemporary Italian artists who reflect on the digitisation of our society and how this led to the development of new practices, global networks, and the democratisation of media creation and distribution.

Borrowing its title from the (in)famous launch of the Post-internet label at the DLD (Digital Life Design) conference in 2012 (the round table “Ways Beyond the Internet”, introduced by Hans Ulrich Obrist), this panel wants to explore recent developments in the field of media art.

Now that a broader aknowledgment that we are living in an age shaped by digital technologies has taken place, that “digital aware art” has found its way in the global art world and market in stable, material, post-digital forms, what’s emerging in terms of æsthetics, pœtics, formal choices, politics and economics?

Changes at FabLab.iMAL

FabLab.iMAL starts its transformation, in preparation to our future centre!

↳16.11.18

Do you want a quick and simple introduction to our different machines? Follow one of our new dedicated workshops. Beginners will learn how to use each of these machines by themselves, and in complete safety.

Renovation

↳12.11.18

The time has finally come: our renovation works at 30 Quai des Charbonnages started last week! After some demolition works, we can start building up our new, 3-storey centre for thedigital art and culture, which will open autumn 2019. Follow us on instagram, facebook & twitter for updates!

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Alexis Choplain - SIGNO_

↳03.07.18

Alexis Choplain is in residency at iMAL this summer with his projecy SIGNO_

Thanks for all, dear Bram

↳04.04.18

It's with great sadness that we learn of the sudden passing of Bram Crevits, this 1st April 2018. Bram has been collaborating with iMAL for several years, as a curator for our Showcase exhibitions, and for our two latest international symposiums in 2016 and 2017. These could have never happened without his vision, intelligence, open-mindedness and generosity.

A new joint project was underway for 2018. iMAL extends its deepest condolences to his family and friends.

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ResurrectionLab in Amsterdam!

↳13.03.18

On March 23rd, the team of the iMAL ResurrectionLab project will participate with Tate and ZKM to the “Transformation Digital Art 2018” symposium organised by LIMA, Amsterdam. We will present the current progress of our project on born-digital art preservation.

New machine: xxl CNC

↳30.01.18

A new centre for iMAL!

Press conference

↳20.09.17

This morning, a press conference was held at iMAL to announce our ambitious plans for creating new infrastructures in our current building along the canal, at 30 Koolmijnenkaai / Quai des Charbonnages, in Molenbeek. Thanks to the support of the European Regional Development Fund 2014-2020, the Brussels-Capital Region and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation we will be able to carry out our CASTII (Centre Arts, Sciences, Technologies, Innovations & Inclusion) project, in collaboration with our two partners LES asbl & House of Cultures and Social Cohesion of the Molenbeek municipality.

The architecture project, designed by the bureaux Central (Brussels) & NP2F (Paris), plans to double the current surface from 600 m2 to more than 1200 m2. This will allow us to create new exhibition and public spaces; a more spacious FabLab equipped with cutting-edge tools; and artists’ residency facilities. iMAL’s new centre will cover 3 floors, from the ground floor to the second floor!

The renovation works are expected to take a whole year, starting by the end of 2017. During these, we will develop a programme of activities (exhibition, workshops, masterclasses, …), at external locations, and in collaboration with other organisations.

Our FabLab.iMAL will remain open, at its current location, on the first floor, during the renovation works, and until the opening of the new centre.

iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technology

iMAL was created in 1999, with the objective to support artistic forms and creative practices using contemporary technologies as their medium.

In 2007, iMAL opened its new venue in the heart of Brussels, a Centre for Digital Cultures and Technology, followed by the opening in 2012 of the FabLab.iMAL, a creative workshop for digital fabrication.

Thanks to a support from the European Regional Development Fund 2014-2020 (ERDF) in the context of the CASTII project iMAL will soon double its infrastructure next to the Brussels Canal and plans to reopen in the spring of 2019 as a center where art, science, technology, innovation and inclusion meet. With this new center iMAL wants to formulate a response to a rapidly evolving digital society. The center not only provides space for (inter) national art practices that use, challenge and question innovative processes but will also be a place where technological developments and creativity are shared with a local community in the context of social inclusion.